Lord is not a word. Song is not a salve. Suffer the child, who lived on sunlight and solitude. Savor the man, craving earth like an aftertaste. To discover in one’s hand two local stones the size of a dead man’s eyes saves no one, but to fling them with a grace you did not know you knew, to bring them skimming homing over blue, is to discover the river from which they came. Mild merciful amnesia through which I’ve moved as through…… More »
WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892) The most influential American poet, beyond question. He was our first memoirist, our earliest Oprah (himself his only guest), our great prophet of the self. You can lay a lot of dreck at Whitman’s door, but his spirit is so large, his voice still so vital, that it’s impossible to think of him as anything but a powerful positive influence. No poet ever worked harder to project himself into the future, and no poet has…… More »
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